Borrowed from Italian Agrigento, from Latin Agrigentum, possibly from the root words ager and gēns, but more likely to be a corruption of Ancient Greek Ἀκράγᾰντᾰ, accusative of Ἀκράγᾱς, from ἄκρος.
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